Paper box.



l. W. HILL.

PAPER BOX.

APPLICATION FILED APR. IZLIQIZ.,

Patented Jam. 8, 1918.

JOHN W. HILL, OF FAIRVIEW, MONTANA.

PAPER BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten aan. e, raie.

, l Application tiled April 12, 1917. Serial No. 161,616.'

'/.en of the United States, residing at FairL view, in the county of Richland, State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Paper B0X; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper boxes, being designed for the transportation of either liquid or solid contents.

The principal object is to provide a box with a handle or carrying member that can be stamped out of one piece of material and that has the means for securing it in box Y form integral with the blank from which 1t is made.

Another object of the invention is to provide a carrying member that can be used either as a handle or as an additional securing means for the box covers.

Deviations from the disclosed design may be found necessary in practice, and these, the right is claimed to make, so long as they are comprehended by the annexed claims.

The same numerals of reference designate the same parts throughout the several fig ures of the drawings, wherein: l

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe assembled'box, showing the carrying member in use as a handle.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the carrying member utilized as an additional securing means for the box cover.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the box is made, dotted lines indicating where this blank is folded.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of one of the assem- K bling operations.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the final assembling operation.

Fig. 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7 of Fig. 5.

The box is built by first laying out the blank shown in Fig. 3. This blank is then divided into the squares 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the triangles 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, the substantially rectangular vpiece 19, and the piece 18. The piece 19 is slit at its free end to provide the small flaps 2O and 21 and the square 7 is similarly slit to provide the small fiaps 22. Narrow strips 23, 24, .35 and 26, are punched out of the triangular pieces 10, 11, 16A and 17, respectively,

' but aremleft integral at one end with the pieces from which they are punched. In the triangles 12, 13, 14 and 15, the rectangular perforations 27, 28, 29 and 30, are respectively made. In the square 9 are made the similar perforations 31 and 32.

The rectangular piece 19 is narrowed longitudinally at its center, and it is this portion of 19 which forms a hand or finger grip when the box is assembled.

Between 19 and 1, the blank is slit to the dotted line at the bottom of 1, and it is also slit between 5 and 18 to the dotted line at the bottom of 5. y

After having been prepared,.as previously described, the blank is then folded on thc dotted lines substantially into the shape of a cubical box, the square 3 becoming the bottom, the squares 2, 4, 6 and 8 becoming the sides, the triangles 10 and 11, 12 and 13, 14 and 15, and 16 and 17 folding in pairs and becoming the end flaps, the squares 1, 5, 7 and 9 becoming a quadruple cover, and theI pieces 18 and 19 becoming a carrying means. The end flap formed by-.14 and 15 is turned back on the outside of 8, and the flap formed by 10 and 11 is turned back over it, and the strips 23 and 24 are inserted through the slits 30 and 29 so that they will lie between 8 andthe flap formed by 14 and 15. Perforations 29 and 30 are laid out to register when the triangles 14 and 15 are folded on each other. The strips 24 and 23 also register when the triangles 10 and 11 are folded on each other. rIhe end flaps formed by triangles 12 and 13 and 16 and 17 are adapted to engage each other by the strips 25 and 26 and the perforations 27 and 28 in the` same manner with reference to the square 6 that the previously described end flaps engaged each other with reference to thesquare 8. In covering the box, the squares 1 and 5 are first turned down, 'one above the other. The'square 9 is then turned down on them, and the square 7 down upon it, when the small flaps 22 can be inserted in the perforations 31 and 32. The box being thus covered, the piece 19 is then turned over the piece 18, and its small flaps 21 are made to engage the perforations 34 in the piece 18. A carrying member for the .box is provided by this arrangement of the pieces 18 and 19, but, if it is desired, to use the piece 19 as an additional securing means for the top of the box, the piece 18 is folded down on the piece 7 and the piece 19 is folded over on to the lill@ end flaps formed by triangles 12 and 13 and 16 and 17, so that its small flaps 20 can be inserted between these end flaps and the vside 6.

It will be noted that the blank from which this box is formed is so designed that 1t contains not only the parts which go to make up the box and its handle, but the securing ers by bringing it around on the side of the box, so that its small flaps 20 can be inserted underneath the adjacent corner flaps of the box.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful, is

1. In a paper box or vessel, a bottom and sides therefor, corner flaps made integral with adjacent sides, one pair of flaps having strips, the other pair of flaps having perforations, theflaps having strips alternating with those, having perforations and the perfor-ations being adapted to engage the strips whereby adjacent flaps are held together, cover flaps for the box, said cover flaps being arranged in quadruplicate with each flap of sufiicient dimensions to fully cover the top of the box, locking means for the two upper cover flaps, said locking means comprising small flaps on the uppermost cover flap and perforations in the flap just below it for the small flaps to engage, and handle flaps for the box, said handle flaps having means for interlocking, whereby they may be used as a carrying means, one of said handle flaps having means for engagement with corner aps of the box to provide additional securing means for the cover flaps.

2. In a paper box or vessel, a bottom and sides therefor, corner flaps made integral with adjacent sides, one pair of aps'having strips, the other pair of flaps having perforations, the flaps having strips connecting with those having perforations by the engagement of the strips with the perforations, cover flaps for the box arranged in quadruplicate with the two uppermost locking together, and a pair of handle fla-ps comprising a long flap narrowed at its longitudinal center for a finger grip and having two pairs of small fiaps at its free end and a shorter flap having perforations, one pair of said small flaps being adapted to engage said last named perfor-ations when the handle flaps are used as a carrying means and thel other pair of said small lflaps being adapted for engagement with corner flaps of the box when the long handle flap is used as an additional securing means for the cover flaps.

In testimony whereof-I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN w. HILL.

Witnesses Fnos'r WILDER, L. G. VARCo. 

